Post by Spooky on Feb 27, 2008 13:46:43 GMT
I will be leading this PT event:
Elvey Farm is the second location that Paranormal Tours will investigate in the famous haunted village of Pluckley. This little village of Pluckley, near Ashford in Kent has become famous in the paranormal community as one of the most haunted places in England. Earliest records show that Pluckley was probably known as Pluccan lëah from the old English 'Plucca's clearing.' In 1086 the village was called Pluchelei and during the 1100's it was spelt Plucelea and Plukele. Early records show that a Roman road led through the village (under what is now the Thorne Estate, towards the Pinnock and on through Frith Wood) while the site of a Roman villa has been found nearby at Little Chart. At the time of the Domesday Book, Lanfranc, the Archbishop of Canterbury, owned Pluckley. He gave the village to the management of a Saxon knight, John Folet. No church is recorded in the Domesday Book, but there was certainly a priest in the village.
From the 13th century the main industry of the area was weaving, usually done from home. Over the years the village expanded, moving down the hill until in the 1300's the Black Death took over. In 1450, groups from Pluckley joined the abortive revolt by Jack Cade. Records show that nearly 50 pardons were afterwards issued to inhabitants: a surprisingly high figure for a village. A century later blood was again spilt, this time in the church, during the Wyatt rebellions. It was then that the parish church of St Mary at Pevington was destroyed. Pevington parish was later divided between the villages of Egerton, Little Chart, and Pluckley getting the greater area.
Elvey Farm is the second location that Paranormal Tours will investigate in the famous haunted village of Pluckley. This little village of Pluckley, near Ashford in Kent has become famous in the paranormal community as one of the most haunted places in England. Earliest records show that Pluckley was probably known as Pluccan lëah from the old English 'Plucca's clearing.' In 1086 the village was called Pluchelei and during the 1100's it was spelt Plucelea and Plukele. Early records show that a Roman road led through the village (under what is now the Thorne Estate, towards the Pinnock and on through Frith Wood) while the site of a Roman villa has been found nearby at Little Chart. At the time of the Domesday Book, Lanfranc, the Archbishop of Canterbury, owned Pluckley. He gave the village to the management of a Saxon knight, John Folet. No church is recorded in the Domesday Book, but there was certainly a priest in the village.
From the 13th century the main industry of the area was weaving, usually done from home. Over the years the village expanded, moving down the hill until in the 1300's the Black Death took over. In 1450, groups from Pluckley joined the abortive revolt by Jack Cade. Records show that nearly 50 pardons were afterwards issued to inhabitants: a surprisingly high figure for a village. A century later blood was again spilt, this time in the church, during the Wyatt rebellions. It was then that the parish church of St Mary at Pevington was destroyed. Pevington parish was later divided between the villages of Egerton, Little Chart, and Pluckley getting the greater area.